ATS equipment and system based on OPC UA technology
Technical field
The present invention relates to train automatic control technology field, particularly a kind of ATS equipment and system based on OPC UA technology.
Background technology
Train new style of auto-supervisory (ATS) is one of important composition subsystem of train automatic controlling system (ATC).It provides a monitor supervision platform to all fronts train and on-site signal equipment for metro operation dispatcher.By other signal system, ATS obtains the real-time status information of on-site signal equipment and train operation, and these information are shown to dispatcher, and dispatcher sends control command according to field condition.In most cases, ATS system self can be processed obtained real-time status data, produces corresponding automatic control command.By adopting this automation means, can alleviate running scheduling personnel homework burden, promote efficiency and the level of service of metro operation.
Because the communication of existing each intermodule of ATS system is substantially all to complete by customization proprietary protocol.In communication process, informational needs carries out complicated packing and resolving, affects communication efficiency.In addition, when the signal system of same section is provided by different suppliers, owing to using proprietary protocol, it is complicated that the information interchange between each system becomes, and a large amount of interface definitions makes system development become difficult.And when system being safeguarded with system upgrade, the use of proprietary protocol is all that completing of these tasks manufactured a lot of obstacles, when increasing new interface system, also needs to design new interface protocol.
Summary of the invention
(1) technical matters that will solve
The technical problem to be solved in the present invention is: how to reduce cost of development, and increase the extensibility of system.
(2) technical scheme
For solving the problems of the technologies described above, the invention provides a kind of ATS equipment based on OPC UA technology, described subway ATS equipment comprises: ATS real-time server, between the prepositive communication computer in described ATS real-time server and described signal system, by OPC UA, realize communication.
Wherein, described signal system comprises: at least one in automatic train monitor ATS, interlocking CI, zone controller ZC, Vehicle Controller VOBC, database storage unit DSU, meter shaft, power supply, railway signals equipment LEU and data communication subsystem DCS.
The invention also discloses a kind of ATS system based on OPC UA technology, described system comprises: signal system and at least two described ATS equipment, ATS equipment centered by one of them ATS equipment, remaining ATS equipment is station ATS equipment, the ATS real-time server of described center ATS equipment receives the status data of all signal system, and the ATS real-time server of described station ATS equipment receives the status data of the signal system in administrative area.
Wherein, described center ATS equipment comprises: historical data base, and between described historical data base and described ATS real-time server, by OPC UA, to realize and communicate by letter, described historical data base is used for storing the status data of all signal system.
Wherein, described center ATS equipment also comprises: center applications module, between described center applications module and described ATS real-time server, by OPC UA, realized and being communicated by letter, the ATS real-time server of described center ATS equipment is also for sending to described center applications module by the status data of all signal system by OPC UA subscription service; Described center applications module, for receiving after the status data of renewal, is applied processing, and the internal state data of processing acquisition is sent to the ATS real-time server of described center ATS equipment.
Wherein, the ATS real-time server of described center ATS equipment is sent to the internal state data in ATS equipment administrative area, described station the ATS real-time server of described station ATS equipment.
Wherein, described center ATS equipment also comprises: despatching work station, between described despatching work station and described ATS real-time server, by OPC UA, realized and being communicated by letter, the ATS real-time server of described center ATS equipment is also for sending to described despatching work station by the status data of all signal system by OPCUA subscription service; Described despatching work station receives after the status data of renewal, upgrades interface display state.
Wherein, described station ATS equipment comprises: station application module, between described station application module and described ATS real-time server, by OPC UA, realized and being communicated by letter, the ATS real-time server of described center ATS equipment is also for being sent to described station application module by the status data of the signal system in the administrative area of described station ATS equipment; Described station application module, for receiving after the status data of renewal, is applied processing.
Wherein, described station ATS equipment also comprises: watch keeper's workstation, between described watch keeper's workstation and described ATS real-time server, by OPC UA, realized and being communicated by letter, the ATS real-time server of described center ATS equipment also sends to described watch keeper's workstation for the status data of the signal system in the administrative area of described station ATS equipment by OPC UA subscription service; Described watch keeper's workstation receives after the status data of renewal, upgrades interface display state.
(3) beneficial effect
The present invention uses OPC UA standard to replace proprietary protocol originally, after the signalling methods unification of each system, does not need to define various interface, has reduced cost of development; If monitored system changes, only need to follow the access of OPC UA standard, increased the extensibility of system.
The present invention uses the safety control of OPC UA technology more to improve the communications security of each intermodule of ATS system;
The present invention uses OPC UA technology also to improve the efficiency of telecommunication simultaneously.
The present invention uses real time data system and the modeling technique of OPC UA, has increased the maintainability of system.
Accompanying drawing explanation
Fig. 1 is the structured flowchart of the ATS equipment based on OPC UA technology of one embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the structured flowchart of the ATS system based on OPC UA technology of one embodiment of the present invention.
The specific embodiment
Below in conjunction with drawings and Examples, the specific embodiment of the present invention is described in further detail.Following examples are used for illustrating the present invention, but are not used for limiting the scope of the invention.
OPC UA technology is COM and a series of transmission mechanisms of DCOM technology and the set of data structure specification based on Microsoft.The development problem that the appearance of OPC UA technology has solved communication interface between the system that different developers develop, has saved the design problem of data structure in system development.Meanwhile, the safety that the secure transport mechanism in OPC UA technology has also improved system.
Fig. 1 is the structured flowchart of the ATS equipment based on OPC UA technology of one embodiment of the present invention; With reference to Fig. 1, described subway ATS equipment comprises: ATS real-time server, between the prepositive communication computer in described ATS real-time server and described signal system, by OPC UA, realize communication.
For detecting the state of train, preferably, described signal system comprises: at least one in the system or equipments such as automatic train monitor ATS, interlocking CI, zone controller ZC, Vehicle Controller VOBC, database storage unit DSU, meter shaft, power supply, railway signals equipment LEU and data communication subsystem DCS.
Fig. 2 is the structured flowchart (in present embodiment, a plurality of equipment all adopts the mode of two-node cluster hot backup to realize, and, except host apparatus, also comprises a hot standby equipment) of the ATS system based on OPC UA technology of one embodiment of the present invention; With reference to Fig. 2, described system comprises: signal system and at least two described ATS equipment, ATS equipment centered by one of them ATS equipment, remaining ATS equipment is station ATS equipment, the ATS real-time server of described center ATS equipment receives the status data of all signal system, and the ATS real-time server of described station ATS equipment receives the status data of the signal system in administrative area.
Enforcement storage for Guarantee Status data, preferably, described center ATS equipment comprises: historical data base, and between described historical data base and described ATS real-time server, by OPCUA, to realize and communicating by letter, described historical data base is for storing the status data of all signal system.
For ease of status data is processed, preferably, described center ATS equipment also comprises: center applications module, between described center applications module and described ATS real-time server, by OPC UA, realized and being communicated by letter, the ATS real-time server of described center ATS equipment is also for sending to described center applications module by the status data of all signal system by OPC UA subscription service; Described center applications module is for receiving after the status data of renewal, apply processing (more the demonstration of new state data and process various traffic orders), and will process the internal state data obtaining and be sent to the ATS real-time server of described center ATS equipment.
For ease of making can upgrade in time the status data of this station ATS equipment of the ATS real-time server of described station ATS equipment, preferably, the ATS real-time server of described center ATS equipment is sent to the internal state data in ATS equipment administrative area, described station the ATS real-time server of described station ATS equipment.
For ease of notifying in time despatching work station, and upgrade its interface display state, preferably, described center ATS equipment also comprises: despatching work station, between described despatching work station and described ATS real-time server, by OPC UA, realized and being communicated by letter, the ATS real-time server of described center ATS equipment is also for sending to described despatching work station by the status data of all signal system by OPC UA subscription service; Described despatching work station receives after the status data of renewal, upgrades interface display state.
Preferably, described station ATS equipment comprises: station application module, between described station application module and described ATS real-time server, by OPC UA, realized and being communicated by letter, the ATS real-time server of described center ATS equipment is also for being sent to described station application module by the status data of the signal system in the administrative area of described station ATS equipment; Described station application module, for receiving after the status data of renewal, is applied processing (i.e. the more demonstration of new state data).
For ease of notifying in time watch keeper workstation, and upgrade its interface display state, described station ATS equipment also comprises: watch keeper's workstation, between described watch keeper's workstation and described ATS real-time server, by OPC UA, realized and being communicated by letter, the ATS real-time server of described center ATS equipment also sends to described watch keeper's workstation for the status data of the signal system in the administrative area of described station ATS equipment by OPC UA subscription service; Described watch keeper's workstation receives after the status data of renewal, upgrades interface display state.
In described ATS system, each intermodule completes communication by OPC UA technology.Other system need to be accessed ATS system only need to be according to OPC UA technology, by client-access ATS real-time data base.
The modeling pattern of described ATS system need to be carried out according to the modeling demand of OPC UA, each data collection point, each controls output point, and attribute type of these points, the reference type between node etc. be all defined as node, the relation between determining a little by node ID.System data design, according to OPC UA regulation, defines the data type of each point in node type, by the information real-time data base that writes direct, no longer needs data pack and resolve.Meanwhile, OPC UA technology has been determined a layered approach and has been guaranteed information safety.This method comprises sets up secure infomation passageway, authentication and mandate, security strategy and configuration file.
The application module of ATS system of take is example with the communication between ATS real-time server module: application module is connected OPC UA client, ATS real-time server connects OPC UA server, and the needed various demonstration information exchanges of application module are crossed the subscription of OPC UA, the information in issuing service cycle acquisition ATS real-time server called.After operator is to some operate, application module writes ATS real-time server by writing service by service data.
Above embodiment is only for illustrating the present invention; and be not limitation of the present invention; the those of ordinary skill in relevant technologies field; without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention; can also make a variety of changes and modification; therefore all technical schemes that are equal to also belong to category of the present invention, and scope of patent protection of the present invention should be defined by the claims.